Kaggle's CEO on Ramping up your Data Science Skills

Get advice for ramping up your Data Science skills from Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle!

Kaggle organizes predictive analytics competitions with cash prizes and hundreds / thousands of participants. Why consider Kaggle if you’re just getting started in your career or switching into data science? In one word: collaboration.

Somewhat unexpectedly (for a competition), Kaggle has a vibrant and beginner-friendly community forum and basic productivity tools for sharing scripts, collaborating, and testing proposed competition solutions.

Competition problems are particularly good learning exercises for predictive analytics, because the problems have been meticulously ‘framed’ by the sponsors. (It takes a ton of effort to get things to that stage in 'real world' data science).

Anthony, as CEO of Kaggle, is uniquely positioned to observe the evolution of the data science ecosystem. Come join him as he shares his thoughts on getting started in data science.

Kaggle has generously offered to provide some food for the event.

Rough Schedule:

6:30 - 6:55p - Chatting, Eating, Forming Kaggle Groups, and Networking

6:55 - 7:45p - Anthony on DS

7:45 - 8:15p - Anthony, Jeremy Schiff and Aaron (Organizer) on Skills, ProD, and Hiring

8:15 - 9:00p - More Chatting, Forming Kaggle Groups, and Networking